# Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/de-foa-0003136-connected-communities-2-0-innovations-to-manage-growing/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355571

> Golden Field Office offered grants of up to $6.0 million (at least $3.0 million) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make $65.0 million in total. Applications closed on October 16, 2024.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | DE-FOA-0003136 |
| Agency | Golden Field Office |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | October 16, 2024 |
| Award ceiling | $6.0 million |
| Award floor | $3.0 million |
| Expected awards | not stated |
| Total funding | $65.0 million |
| Cost sharing | required |
| Assistance Listings | 81.086 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Please see full eligibility requirements under the FOA posting at https://eere:exchange.energy.gov/. The Eligibility requirement are in Section III.A of a FOA document.

## What the grant funds

This modification extends the Full Application deadline from October 10, 2024 to October 16, 2024 due to natural disaster, Hurricane Milton, impacting the ability of applicants to complete and submit an application by the deadline. The “Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid” Funding Opportunity (FOA) issued by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is designed to address major new loads from transportation, industry, and buildings on the electric grid by providing new tools for users, planners, and operators of the electric grid. This FOA has two major topical areas: Connected Communities 2.0, focused on grid edge technical measures in buildings, industry, and transportation to prepare the electric grid for these new loads, and improve the resilience of customers and the grid; and Smart Charge Management (SCM), focused on various unique urban, suburban, and rural use cases to build confidence in SCM as an effective approach for electric vehicles (EVs) to provide flexibility and value to the electric grid. The learnings from these projects should enable electric system planners and operators, strategic planners, regulators such as Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), and other stakeholders to understand and plan for new load growth and peak loads driven by electrification, growth in manufacturing, and new computing developments; and to plan for physical and cyber threats to reliability and resilience, while keeping costs affordable for customers and ratepayers. To achieve this end, the cohort of awarded projects will pursue three primary goals. First, the cohort will demonstrate how smart and coordinated management of EVs and other distributed energy resources (DERs), including the integration of efficiency, smart electrical panels, solar, heat pumps, controls, EV charging, and storage can together provide grid support, reduce system costs, and improve the economics of customer technology adoption, at a scale sufficient to enable confidence in wide-scale adoption. The second goal is to demonstrate approaches that enable acceptance by utilities, PUCs, and communities of smart charge management, grid-edge technical measures and innovative planning strategies as valid methods towards right sizing investments in the distribution system.

## Questions people ask

### Is DE-FOA-0003136 still open?

No. It closed on October 16, 2024.

### Who can apply for Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid?

Golden Field Office accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid?

Closed October 16, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $6.0 million each. About $65.0 million in total.

### Who has won Conservation Research and Development grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Purdue University, General Atomics, North Carolina State University. The program made 710 awards worth $1.7 billion in that time.